As more people get news and information from YouTube, TikTok and other social media, how do they know what standards creators bring to their work? How do they distinguish between journalists, ...

“It’s terrifying,” Fong told me a couple of weeks before Howtown launched. “We’re not young kids with infinite energy and confidence. We are well into our 30s and know that most things probably fail, ...

“That success isn’t a coincidence. Starting in 2014, [Joe] Posner and [Joss] Fong built out a scrappy team of journalists, many of whom had limited experience producing video, and together they began ...